Trailing fender.



No.'8 08,'783. PATENTBD JAN. zffgoe.

E; G. SOLOMON.

TRAILI NG FENDER.

' AP PLIOATION FILED NOV. 20. 190s.

innrrnn s rains PATENT OFi-Elifiltl.

EMMET G. SOLOMON, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA, Ao'Sl'GNOR Oil ONE-HALF TO HARRISON G. SHEDI), OF ASHLAND, NEBRASKA.

TRAlLlNG FENDEFL Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1906.

To (all-whom it 'nt/ty concern.-

Be it known that Earner G. SOLOMON, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain useiul im movements in Trailing Fenders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a car attachment, and comprises a trailing tender or guard movably secured to the rear end of a street-car or other vehicle; and my invention comprises the combination of certain instrumentalities set forth more fully hereinafter and finally pointed out in t ie claims.

In the accompanying drawingsl have shown in Figure 1 a broken rear end view of a streetcar provided with my trailing fender and guard. Fig. '2 shows a broken detached View of one of the :t'ender-bars and the method of supporting the same in a horizontal position, while Fig. 3 shows a top view, with portions broken away, of my invention.

A great many accidents occur, especially in crowded cities, in that passengers in stepping oil of a car pass around the rear oi the same directly in front 01' a car going in the opposite direction, and my invention has for its aim the providing of a means whereby passengers passing around the rear end of a car, and so being in position not to see an approaching car, will, be stopped by a trailing fender or guard, which, however, is loosely swung at the rear of the car, so that even if a passenger should run directly'against my spring-held fender no injury would be done the passenger or party running against the same.

V. y invention is further so constructed that when not in use the same may be folded up and carried out oi the way, as shown.

in the accompanying drawings l have shown at A a broken portion of a street-car provided with the rear platform a, having the usual step /I. This rear platform a is provided with the usual top railingc, from which I extend a loosely-held bar 1, which below is pivotally held within an car (i, as shown in Fig. 1, the bar 1 being provide with the collar c to prevent the bar 1 dropping through the ear (Z. Secured to this loosely-held bar 1 is an upper ear 2 in the form of a U-shaped strap, which is securely fixed to the bar 1, and is provided with a pin 3, pivotally supporting the upper fender-bar 8, as shown in Fig. l.

Secured approximately midway of the end of the bar 1 is a supporting-ear 4., provided with a supporting-pin 5, this supporting-ear 4 extending outward a little farther than the supporting-ear 2, as is disclosed in Fig. 1, while near the lower end this revolubly-held bar 1 is provided.v with the supporting-ear 6, holding a pin 7, to which is pivotally secured a fendenbar, the pin 5 also holding the intermediate fender-bar, as disclosed These pivotally-held fendenbars S, 9', and 10 are connected by a plurality of transverse connectingbars 0 0, pivotally secured by means of the pins (0. Now in order to hold these fender-bars 8, 9, and 10 in a horizontal position'the ends of the same are out on an angle, as is shown at 15 in Fig. 3, so that this angular portion of the bar 9, for instanee, is made to rest against the angular portion f'of the car a, as in Fig. 2, where I have shown a detail of the intermediate ear 4. Now, While the angular end of the fender-bar 9 will hold the bar 9 in horizontal position this bar 9 may at the same time be easily carried into a verticalposition, as disclosed in dotted lines in Fig. 1, for instance, and it should be understood that each of these cars 2, e, and 6 is provided with an angular portion, so that these bars may be held in a horizontal position. In order to hold this trailing fender in alinement with the car, but under spring tension, 1 provide the lower fender-bar 10 with the bracket 12, from which extend in opposite directions the coil-springs 13, secured to the ears 1%. in referring to Fig. 1 it will be noticed that the bracket 12 extends downward a suitable distance below a plane passing horizontally through the pin 7, so that these springs assist in holding the fender in a downwardly-locked condition, while at the same time this tender may easily be swung against the tension of one of these springs 13 sidewise.

When the tender is not in use, the same may be carried in an upright position in raising upward the fender-bars 8, 9, and 10, which will then told one upon the other, as is disclosed in Fig. 1 in dotted lines, the springs 13 in this instance again holding the fende bars in a locked position under spring tension, however, so that the tender may be thrown downward when the same is brought into use.

If desired, the fender, which is made of light framework, may be covered with canvas, and so provide an admirable advertising device, which would be noticeable because of its conspicuousness. In case of cars crowding upon one another it would be an easy matter for an operator to reach down and draw up this tender so that the same may be folded out of the'way.

While this trailing spring-held tender as particularly adapted to be used in connection with electric cars, the same may be used in connection with other vehicles.

Having thus described my said invention,

what I claim asnew, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is

1. A oar-fender adapted to be secured to the rear end of a car, comprising a pivotallyheld supporting-bar of a plurality of fenderbars pivotally secured to said supporting-bar, said fender-bars being normally adapted to be held in a horizontal position, a plurality of vertical bars pivotally securing said fenderbars to provide an approximately 'rectangule frame, and a spring to normally hold Isnild frame in alinement with the car, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A car-fender adapted to be secured to the rear end of the car, comprising a pivota lyheld su pporting-bar, of a plurality of fender:

hars pivotally secured to said supportingbarn said fender-bars beingadapted to be normally held in a horizontal position, means to connect said fender-bars, and a springto normally hold said frame in alinement with the car.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses;

- EMMET G. SOLOMON.

/Vitnessesu DAN B, Burma, A. J. vi/see. 

